Matthew Butler

Matthew Calbraith Butler (8 March 1836-14 April 1909) was a Confederate States Army and US Army Major-General during the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War and a US Senator from South Carolina (D) from 4 March 1877 to 4 March 1895 (succeeding Thomas J. Robertson and preceding Benjamin Tillman).

Biography
Matthew Calbraith Butler was born in Greenville, South Carolina in 1836, the grandson of congressman William Butler, the son of William Butler Jr., the nephew of Andrew Butler, and the nephew of Oliver Hazard Perry. He became a lawyer in Edgefield in 1857 and served in the State House from 1860 to 1861, when he resigned to serve in Hampton's Legion in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, becoming colonel of the 2nd South Carolina Cavalry Regiment. He lost his right foot to rifle fire at the Battle of Brandy Station in 1863 and was again wounded at the Battle of Bentonville in 1865, ending the war with the rank of Brigadier-General. Although he was a Southern Democrat, he was pro-African-American, and he served in the US Senate from 1877 to 1895. When the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898, he and fellow Confederate veterans Fitzhugh Lee, Thomas L. Rosser, and Joseph Wheeler became US Army generals, and Butler supervised the Spanish evacuation from Cuba at the war's end. He became president of a mining company in Mexico in 1904, but he later returned to Washington DC and died there in 1909.